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The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) has yesterday graduated thirty officers who underwent five months intensive training on engineering to serve GAF. The graduation was held at Yundum Barack. Brigadier general Ramatoulie B.K Sanyang thanked all the commanders who partake in the training, saying there is need to consolidate on the achievements made so far and improve on the identified weak areas, especially in engineering. “This is the fifth time in the history of the GAF engineers thus making today’s ceremony most special. I recalled personnel ceremony cadre 04 around July 2018, which was about 50 soldiers and was a significant figure to both GAF engineers and different platinum,” he explained. She thanked the director of GAF engineer for the hard work and dedication towards building capacity and his guidance throughout the training. Col. Paul Authur Gomez, Director GAF engineers thanked the trainers for carrying the great initiative, while urging the graduates to ut...

By Pa Modou Cham The president of The Gambia Adama Barrow has denounce that the county doesn’t have resources and we are paying 60% of our revenue on loans, adding that the 40% cannot develop this country and we are depending on donors. “The project I launched is a grand from China. If you don’t have the resources, you should use your knowledge and get what you want and that’s what we are doing. We are innovative and we will continue to be innovative to move the country forward. He was speaking on Saturday with GRTS Kabaculie Conteh in an exclusive interview held in state house. He said it was not easy after 22 years from dictatorship but during the two years he served, they were able to achieve many things. He added that his main priority was to stabilize the economic, which they were able to do. Answering a question about issues of social media, the president said people use to tell him to do something because those talking bad about him are testing the water...

The President of The Gambia Adama Barrow told the women leaders that women’s advancement and empowerment are integral to his government’s development plan, which the NDP 2018-2021 – will provides for the allocation of D5 million annually to an entrepreneurship fund to promote women’s economic empowerment. The Senegalo-Gambian Network of Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders paid a courtesy call on the President at the State House on Wednesday to discuss the vision and mission of their organization as well as the challenges they face in facilitating trade between the two countries and beyond. According to stated house media, President Barrow encouraged the women to be more innovative in their approach as successful entrepreneurship requires more in the current economic realities. The President promised that the officials would look into the hassles and delays at border crossings to minimize the associated vices. He added that his dream and that of President Sall is to have a borderl...

The founder of Gambia clubfoot foundation Dr. Ebou Camara has denounce that they are committed in fighting clubfoot problem in The Gambia for sustainability. He was speaking during an opening training of medical doctors on basis ponseti clubfoot treatment yesterday, which is funded by Miraclefeet in the USA. He explained that they came with the initiative of helping people with clubfoot problem during their visit to the country’s hospitals, adding that they initiated the training for doctors to learn and share with others, in order to fight clubfoot in the country. “We now registered more than 300 patience and we know there are more. That’s why we’re organising training for health workers in Serrekunda hospital and Banjul to start the treatment in the country. We have equipments to be used to treat babies’ burn with the problem,” he said. He call on the government to join them in eradicating clubfoot in The Gambia, saying they cannot do it alone, instead need the...

The Gambia Democratic party (GDC) has profound believe that now is not the time for the issuance of  gun importation licenses in the country but the issuance of food production, packaging, processing and importation licenses for food security. These were revealed in a press statement send to CTV Africa. GDC further stated that The Gambian people need affordable food items and commodities for survival and not guns, adding that now is not the time to make it easy for anybody to be able to secure a fire arm but to make it easy for the teaming number of unemployed youths to find descent jobs that would enable them contribute effectively to the socio-economic development of the Gambia. GDC also wishes to inform the General public that at a time when our national security is still very porous with the so-called national security reforms being implemented at a snail's pace, the government of the Gambia made an ill-advised decision to grant a guns importation license to GACH ...